Artillery Row

The Gove Accords

What is the significance of Michael Gove’s Brexit agreement?

The universal appeal of self-pity

Zeinab Badawi’s ‘The History of Africa’ (BBC World News)

Why asylum abuse will get worse after Brexit

The government is blaming international rules while under-investing in national alternatives

John Lennon: the first and last global icon

Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon

Spare the rod

Spoiled beaks and free thought at Eton

All the news fit to post

Are Freedom of Information requests really being politically policed by the Cabinet Office?

The child trans judgement is a step in the right direction

The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close

The nation’s favourite: why Coronation Street matters

As Coronation Street celebrates its diamond jubilee, is it time to take it seriously as the chronicler of our times?

The lives of philosophers

British philosophy has become much more interesting, but they just don’t make philosophers like they used to

John Luther Adams: The ‘Become’ trilogy (cantaloupe)

You will either feel very relaxed by the middle of the piece or you will throw things at the wall and say some very bad words